Topic was about salvation and diversity , you again go off the topic ,
The reason for my question- if a religion was developed solely based on its surrounding ie. Arabia, how should it be adapted for other places?
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Topic was about salvation and diversity , you again go off the topic ,
The reason for my question- if a religion was developed solely based on its surrounding ie. Arabia, how should it be adapted for other places?
Given the last post by Santro in this thread:
http://www.defence.pk/forums/sugges...ious-debates-other-nations-3.html#post2256372
I wanted to ask a serious question with the hope of a polite and substantive discussion.
ADMINS/MOD: Please close or delete this thread if OP or subsequent discussion is inappropriate.
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There are religious zealots who insist on a puritanical interpretation of just about every topic being discussed, while being convinced themselves that theirs is the only way to true salvation.
If it were so important to follow the only path to salvation, why would Allah, the most beneficent and merciful, create all this diversity of color, thought, religion and country to begin with? After all, the many wonders of his creation, from galaxies down to microbes, all show a harmonious existence with all their diversity, so why not human beings, the epitome of his creation?

The whole premises of belonging to a religion is that everyone not following the same path is wrong and you're right
To put it more gently, there is at least a best available path that we can follow.
After spending three years of my life reading closely all major religious books, I have come to one conclusion about God...
That is, in every book he ask for you to love him unconditionally!!!!!!!!!
Maybe that may seem simple, but it is harder to do. Think about who would you love unconditionally, to me it is only my kids, but do you really have unconditional love for your wife, parents, friends, etc....
This becomes the focus of God, atleast for me, that he is asking you to love him as equal as your child.... For the forum member who do not have any children will not understand this love at all.
My two cent on this question..
Thanks..
Ah, a premise used some years ago,
This is a correct and crashes a lot of modern myths about freedom, secularism etc etc etc
Ah, a premise used some years ago,
This is a correct and crashes a lot of modern myths about freedom, secularism etc etc etc
"human beings, the epitome of his creation?"
The concept that human beings are the epitome of God's creation has been proved incorrect...
These concepts of "So God created man in his own image.......(Genesis 1:27)" and ".........the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. (Psalm 93:1, King James)" are biblical statements which are echoed in all Abrahamic religions and which have no scientific basis whatsoever.
The Hindu belief is that the only constant in all creation is change itself. All things change. Life and death are an unending cycle. All species existing today will die out to be replaced by others just as others have died out to make way for those existing today.
Nobody said being faithful would be easy. The story of Abraham being asked to sacrifice his child clearly proves the demand is to love him more than even your child.
The thing is, in Islam, Allah is described as more loving than the love of a mother x 70 for the humankind. So your inadequacy of loving him unconditionally may not precisely disbar you from heaven.
A simple question
It is said that god created the world in 7 days that means that the work was over, complete, yada, done.
But then their is still evolution. species evolve for the betterment
So either the god was not perfectionist or the world was not created by god.
My discussion was not based on Heaven's, but if you really read the religious books, there is this central theme of unconditional love from you to God. You are speaking of how God Loves you? There is this dedication that each religious books explains how God should be loved Uncoditional, in some case the God is Violent if not done so, like the old testament, and in other case there is loving God, like the new testament....
In terms of Hinduism the God becomes equal, where he is the controller of balance in the Universe.. In Buddhism, where God does not really exist in true reality, and true happiness is by killing all of the desires, the basic theme... I can also speak of Islam, but that would be pushing it in this forum....
Thanks...
A simple question
It is said that god created the world in 7 days that means that the work was over, complete, yada, done.
But then their is still evolution. species evolve for the betterment
So either the god was not perfectionist or the world was not created by god.
An atheist is a man of greater faith than a man of religion. It takes a HUGE leap of faith to believe what they do...